Car-door hanger.



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J. A. MYERS. YGAR DooR HANGER.

' APPLICATION FILED 00T. 23. 1906.

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JACOB A. MYERS, OF GREENVILLE, ILLINOIS.

CAR-DOOR HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 7, 1907.

Application tiled October 23, 1906. Serial No. 340,217.

To all whom t wtf/ty concern:

Be it known that I, J AooB A.,MYnns, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Greenville, Bond county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar-Door Hangers, of which the followin is a specification containing a full", clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to an improvement in car door hangers and consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation of my invention applied to the car, a portion of the car being broken away; Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. l Fig. 3 is a sectional view, with parts broken away, of a modified form of my invention.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings ,-1 indicates a car of the ordinary construction. Secured underneath the eaves of the roof of said car, and spanning the car door opening is a housing 2, the ends of said housinv being secured to the car by means of boIts, rivets, or nails 3. Said housing is made of metal.

4 indicates the usual erating handle 5.

Secured to the car, or the framework thereof is'an L-shaped bracket 6. Said L- shaped bracket 6 answers as a support to the car door when itis closed to prevent the same from being thrust outwardly.

7 indicates a similar L-shaped bracket, which is secured to the car or the framework thereof, and answers as a receiving bracket or su port for the car door when it is open.

ecured to the framework of the car are car door,with the opi two additional L-shaped brackets 8, which are secured to the framework of the car by means of the screw bolts 9.

The top edge of the door is located beneath the car door by means of bolts 11.

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the housing 2, said housing forming a pocket for the reception of the top edge of the car door when it is closed, or when it is open.

10 indicates two parallel bars, the lower ends of which are pivoted between the upwardly projecting arms of the brackets 8 and the framework of the car, and they are pivoted on the screw bolts 9, the vertical arms of said brackets 8 acting as a keeper for the bars l0. The upper ends of said bars l() are pivoted to These bars 10 are of such a required length and are so pivoted to the car door 4 that they will permit said door to be fully closed 5 and, when the car door is being opened, they will receive the full weight of same and permit it to be opened as if it were on a pivotal bearing.

When the car door is closed, these parallel bars 10 are disposed transversely over about one-half the portion of the car door, thereby strengthening the same and acting as a brace against the outward thrust.

In Fig. 3 a construction is shown wherein; the bars l0 provided with arms 11a, which are secured underneath the framework of the car by means of brackets l2.

Having fully described my invention, I claim is:

1. The combination with a car and a car door, of two parallel bars, the upper ends of which are pivoted to the car door, and the lower ends thereof pivotally connected at fixed points to the car; substantially as specified.

2. The combination with a car and car door, of a pair of parallel bars pivotally secured at their upper ends to the car door. the lowerends of which bars are pivotally secured at fixed points to the car body below the door.

In testimony what whereof, I have signed my presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JACOB A. MYERS.

Witnesses M. l?. SMITH, E. L. WALLACE. 

